Evelyne posted on
February 17th, 2010
How do you start off a week in style and non-sobriety?
Well for me this past Monday I accomplished that with an Absinthe dinner!
It all started with our last All Sugar Event where we ended up at the Lab cocktail, a bar that specializes in Absinthe. My friend Johanne has had a bottle for a while [...]
Evelyne posted on
December 15th, 2009
Today I had brunch with a friend near one of Montreal”s biggest makrets: the Atwater Market. In the summer it is briming with produce sold by the local farmers outside. At this tme of the year that space was replaced with Chistmas trees salemans. But there is an indoor part with several great butchers, spice [...]
Evelyne posted on
November 29th, 2009
No I am not going all environmental on you all (not that there is anything wrong with it in good Seinfeld dialect). It was just apparently the inspiration of the day.
At lunch time I headed over to La Maison du Macaron as the owners graciously donated their new hot-off-the-press recipe book as a prize for [...]
Evelyne posted on
November 27th, 2009
I love going to kitchen stores or departments and look at the newest designs, equipments or inventions. Especially now with Christmas coming up I need to window shop for some inspiration to send my list to Santa Claus. I also like shinny things he he. So the tableware section always calls out my name in [...]
Evelyne posted on
November 16th, 2009
I mentioned a couple of days I had two exciting evening in a row but I only gave you part of the info. Well I am revealing the first one. This is the info I gave you: Nov 12th: I was invited by a PR firm to attend a food book launch tonight that will [...]
Evelyne posted on
November 12th, 2009
I am such a tease! Did you know that? Well if you know me in real life you are probably nodding your head right now and laughing.
What does it have to do with this post. Well I am only going to tell you half a story…the rest will be revealed in 2 separate blogs. Tonight [...]
Evelyne posted on
October 4th, 2009
I am by no means a beer connaisseur but I recently went to Bières et Compagnie with some friends and, as the name suggests, there is a lot of beer on the menu. Actually they claim to have over 100 beers. There is a seperate menu just for the beer.
I decided to splurge and try [...]
Evelyne posted on
August 30th, 2009
As mentioned in my review of La Maison du Macaron in Montreal, I promised to do a follow up post discussing the history of these angelic treats, as well as give you a recipe for making them.
Really it seems the foodies world is in a Macron attack. Everyone is talking about them, everybody wants to [...]
Evelyne posted on
August 11th, 2009
I was recently in Quebec City for a 24hr getaway. How lucky I was to enjoy balmy temperatures of 14 C with rain….NOT! And all I had were capris, sandals and a thin little sweater. Well at least this situation permitted me to discover a little epicurean delight I might have missed had it been [...]
Evelyne posted on
July 17th, 2009
Last night I was lucky enough to attend the premier of a great little film ALL FOODIES should see: Julie & Julia
Here is the plot on Wiki: Frustrated temp secretary Julie Powell (Amy Adams) embarks on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She [...]

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